ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,703, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo) and Lihui Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, control information designating a number of continuous slots to which a physical uplink shared channel is assigned, or a number of continuous physical uplink shared channels; and a transmission unit configured, when LBT succeeds at any one of a plurality of candidate start positions in a slot of continuous slots to which the ph...